Their rights must be protected both at home and abroad
India must respect international norms in border conduct
Constructive engagement must to resolve ongoing debates and challenges
MOST environmentalists are disappointed that the political parties in their election manifestos have not touched on how to address the adverse effects of global warming in the country.
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MUCH to their elation, corrupt politicians (corrupticians) of Bangladesh know that they have their counterparts in America also -- differing not only in degree but also in the consequences of being corrupt.
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BANGLADESH Nationalist Party chief Khaleda Zia has made public 36-point election manifesto of her party along with the slogan 'Save country, save people' as the central theme.
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ONE cannot but note with concern the renewal of acrimony between the two nuclear neighbours in the wake of the Mumbai massacre. From materials appearing in the media so far, the terrorists were from Pakistan, having, allegedly, been patronized and trained by radical elements in that country.
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IT is that time of year when we remember some of the bravest sons and daughters of the soil who made the supreme sacrifice in order to ensure the liberation of Bangladesh. In December 1971, only days away from freedom, the Bengali nation lost a whole group of its intellectuals to the murderous onslaught of the Pakistan occupation army and its local collaborators, the Razakars, al-Badr and al-Shams. Between 12 and 14 December, perhaps even later, our doctors, academics, civil servants and journalists were picked up by these forces and then systematically picked off. Their sinister objective was clear: an emerging Bangladesh was to be left maimed so that it could not realise the full meaning of liberty. The occupation army and its collaborators were clearly on the run, but along the...
AMID a mix-up of world economic crisis descending into recession and the climate change challenge intensifying, it is not perhaps surprising that the UN summit on climate change has ended in Poznan, Poland more on a rhetorical rather than substantive note. The global leaders have merely iterated a commitment to keep on negotiating to reach a consensus on a Green deal in the next UN climate change summit in Copenhagen due in December, 2009.
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